On 26/09/2026 18:16, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
I think it's what I wrote earlier:
I'd have thought you restore the backup to a new location, getting
it as recent as you want, e.g. full plus several incrementals.
That's then the content to fill /home from scratch. The existing
/home's content gets moved aside so you can cherry-pick bits from it
later that are newer than the last incremental you restored from.
Yes. I did see that, and that's exactly what I was attempting to do
yesterday evening. Unfortunately, I had to re-install Kubuntu again and
then I couldn't get your sequence of bash commands to work, so I went to
bed in disgust.
This morning, I realised that in order to work, I had to install
cifs-utils, which isn't included in a Kubuntu installation by default.
Yesterday, I had installed it, prior to your post, while I was rummaging
around looking for smb files on my NAS.
A restore doesn't get put over the top of the current; it needs to
sit underneath. That's can't be done so you start from zero, add
the restore, add current.
Yes. As I said at the time, I didn't really understand this bit. I know
what I have to do, but what did you mean by 'sit underneath'?
On a new system, create users terry and terry2. As terry2, alter
/home/terry as you see fit.
That is exactly what I am going right now.
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